Pest Control in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester has seen a lively start this year which is surprising given the very cold winter of 2010/11.
Pest and Vermin controllers were kept working with the usual town centre rodent problems during the winter of 2009/10, but the relatively cold early spring has already provided some ant problems coming in.
Some people attempt rat and mouse control by themselves but usually it is preferable to use a professional.
The damp summers of 2009 and 2010 were not to the taste of the hymenoptera (bees, ants, sawflies and wasps) but 2010 looks like it will turn out to be a busy year for flying ant work.
Often ants build their nests under the floors of buildings and inside cavity walls causing a large number of foraging ants to enter kitchens and food cupboards.
However it is at the mating time when they can be most annoying as they produce winged males and queens which then mate on the wing.
The appearance of many thousands of these winged ants inside houses can be horrible indeed.
A somewhat new pest was very numerous in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area last year, the Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci).
It was rare for pest controllers in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire to meet these pests until recently but they seemed to arrive from nowhere in 2008 and already this spring has seen reports of these insects in large numbers.
Having a similar life cycle to moths their larvae, called woolly bears eat natural fibres and can do a great deal of damage to carpets and any fabrics. They are a difficult and persistent pest to get rid of.
Bed Bugs are continuing their return in the Lancashire, Manchester and Cheshire area, frequently arriving as hitch-hikers in the suitcases of home-coming travellers.
Often the first reaction of those unlucky ones who realise that they have been infested with these revolting,blood-sucking pests is to get rid of the old beds and get.
This is a costly error as despite their name bed bugs don’t just hide in beds and in an infested room will be found everywhere within around fifteen feet of the bed, in cupboards, drawers etc, even in electrical wall sockets and the new beds are quickly re-infested.
A lot of people mix up bed bugs with dust mites which are not visible to the naked eye.
They dine solely on blood which they syphon from their sleeping hosts. People regularly associate bed bugs with insanitary conditions but nothing could be less true, they do not require squalor, their food is you!
These bugs shouldn’t be tackled using DIY Pest Control Products.
A DIY job utilising a Bed Bug Spray can often make the situation worse
Until the end of June 2011 Harrier & Manchester Pest Control are offering a twenty-five percent reduction on their guaranteed ant treatment.
The revolutionary treatment which is guaranteed for three years, extendable indefinitely in further three year chunks by a affordable re-treatment every three years, can be carried out in most homes subject to satisfactory,free
For the summer of 2011 Harrier Pest Control are offering a fixed price for destroying wasps nests in the Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire area of just thirty two pounds.
Contact Harrier Pest control for more information on 0800 019 8382 or 0161 930 8814